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On December 8, 2022, Russia and the United States conducted a 1-for-1 prisoner exchange, trading Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer. Griner, a WNBA champion star and Team USA Olympic athlete, had been convicted of smuggling and possession of cannabis in Russia in August 2022 and sentenced to ...
Aug 5, 2022 · CNN —. American women’s basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted of deliberately smuggling drugs into Russia and sentenced to nine years of jail time Thursday in a case that has raised ...
Aug 5, 2022 · After a Russian court sentenced WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday to nine years in prison for a drug smuggling conviction, the player’s supporters, teammates and numerous US officials ...
Jul 1, 2022 · O n Aug. 4, 31-year-old WNBA champion and Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for more than five months, was sentenced to nine years in prison for charges of ...
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May 4, 2024 · At one point in Coming Home, Griner’s new memoir of her forced stay in Russia for most of 2022, the nine-time WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist quotes Nelson Mandela’s words ...
Dec 8, 2022 · Updated on December 8, 2022 04:30PM EST. It's been a long road for Brittney Griner. The WNBA star, now 32, was detained in Russia on Feb. 17, 2022, for allegedly possessing cannabis oil in her ...
Apr 1, 2022 · US women’s basketball superstar Brittney Griner is currently in custody in Russia, having been arrested on 17 February by the Russian Federal Customs Service after they found cannabis oil ...
